Im trying to raid stripe 2 vertex2 60gb. so the new one just arrived. secure erased 1st one took all stuff off mobo Asus m4a88td m evo/usb3. attached the two ssds on first two sata ports and nothing else, chose Raid for ports 1 to 4 and ide for 5 to 6. saved exited and hit crtl and F when prompted that got me to the OPTION ROM UTILITY 2009 AMD Inc.

Secure erase both SSDs and make sure they are initialized. Make sure you have the latest update for your RAID BIOS. Had to do this when installing two GSkill SSDs for my sig rig on a similar board with the same utility. Need to update the AMD Option Rom Utility 2009 to the latest with an update available from AMD. If it is updated, then you just need to define the array. The computer needs to be cold booted after RAID settings are set in BIOS. Dont ask why I dont know, but wouldnt work for me til I cold booted it after setting RAID in BIOS. Then use the option ROM to define your array. After pressing 2 it will give you the message that there is no LD. Press enter on the open screen here and define your LD. Then assign the disks you want to the LD, and you have to press ctrl y to get the disks to initialize as a RAID array.

I lloked on various boaards and someomre said they sorted it by putting a really old bios on ! so i just put the original that came on the board, made no difference, i secure erased the 1st ssd that i had been using, the other arrived brand new today.

they both show when i press 1 in the option rom.

I havent a clue how to update The amd option rom thought it was just part of the whole bios. will look on amd site, now.

You say pres 2 and get the message no ld, then press enter on that screen and set LD.... At the moment thats the whole problem it wont go past the "there is no LD" Even pressing enter?

The other thing you say about initialised? One is brand new, the other secure erased with parted magic, they show on option rom, and in bios so is that initialised?

Thanks for ur post and time just popping to amd to see about newer Option Rom.

Hooray seem to got progress i got into the Define LD screen yay!!! With the old hard drives, swapped them with the ssd's and got to that now, chuffed. But dont know how to progress LOL. oh well here goes good this isnt it, 9 hours later im into a screen i was nearly at 8 hours ago !

Just follow the link I know its long. This is a guide for RAID options in the ASROCK and ASUS motherboards... the process is the same as they both use AMD RAID option ROM utility. Basically on the define LD screen you want to create an LD under assignment number 1 as the first LD or logical disk array. This allows you to select the physical disks in the array and pair them. When the screen shows allowing you into define an LD, you press enter on LD 1. Change the RAID mode to whatever you want to use suggest RAID 0 for performance with those SSDs. Next you Select Y next to the drives you want in the array. After having done this, you will use the ctrl-y option to define the array and save the capacity for that array to the logical drive. In this instance, when creating logical arrays, you can have as many drives as you can support with your motherboard and define multiple arrays, or one large array linking numerous disks together to form one large logical disk (LD).

Hi bodyshield thanks, im sorted win7 is loaded up i set a 64 block. bit of a moment when it dint find the hard drives to install to good job had the raid driver on usb stick. its flying ! Will do an atto bench soon. just got to install graphics and soundcard then windows experience thing. Feel chuffed, thatnks for the advice will fav all that for da footcha.

Think I did it correctly, fantastic speeds by the first look at atto probably be even better when the drives settle. Is anything to be gained by using the amd raidxpert utility please? Bloke on the ocz forum said it wouldnt be worth raiding the two drives I have without it?